﻿#region License

// Another free, open solution by folks who get it.
// Copyright © 2011 Business in Unison, Inc.
// 
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
// 
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
// 
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

#endregion

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Patterns.Threading
{
	/// <summary>
	/// 	Defines extensions to the <see cref = "TimeSpan" /> type.
	/// </summary>
	public static class TimeSpanExtensions
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// 	Waits for the specified duration.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name = "duration">The duration.</param>
		public static void Wait(this TimeSpan duration)
		{
			// perform the sleep in an auxiliary thread and wait to join it
			// using a more modern thread management class (allows Microsoft
			// to make optimizations to thread queueing without necessitating
			// a code change here)

			// ... this will hopefully make the normally nasty Thread.Sleep call a bit more accurate...

			var taskFactory = new TaskFactory();
			Task task = taskFactory.StartNew(() => Thread.Sleep(duration));
			task.Wait();
		}
	}
}